Viewers will see Mike serve Wensleydale Ploughman’s with beetroot medallions, followed by wild mushroom and lime chicken in a cream sauce.

His dessert was baked banana in rum and caramel with gold leaf, which he bought in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

Father-of-four Mike, who’s married to Lorraine, was a last-minute contestant on Come Dine With Me.

The businessman said he went into it having never seen the show. “My colleague Alan Sartori was asked to do it, then the week before filming he changed his mind,” he said. “I was trying to persuade him to do it when he said ‘Why don’t you?’. So I agreed.”